NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs AMD Radeon R9 380

VS

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540

AMD Radeon R9 380

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 380 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Quadro FX 540

VS

Radeon R9 380

Graphics Card

Aug 2004

Release Date

Jun 2015

Quadro FX Curie

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

Shading Units

1792

8

TMUs

112

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.04 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.476 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

3.476 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

217.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

190W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV43

GPU Name

Antigua

NV43 GL

GPU Variant

Antigua PRO (215-0877000)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.146 billion

Transistors

5 billion

154 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.3

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